In this, his major work, Jeffrey Hopkins, one of the world's foremost scholar-practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism, offers a clear exposition of the Prasangika-Madhyamika view of emptiness as presented in the Ge-luk-ba tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. In bringing this remarkable and complex philosophy to life, he describes the meditational practices by which emptiness can be realized and shows throughout that, far from being merely abstract, these teachings can be vivid and utterly practical. Presented in six parts, this book is indispensable for those wishing to delve deeply into Buddhist thought.
Meditation on Emptiness, Jeffrey Hopkins, Wisdom Publications, Paperback, 1017 pages, $39.95
Jeffrey Hopkins is Professor of Tibetan Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia where he has taught Tibetan Studies and Tibetan language since 1973. He received a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1963, trained for five years at the Lamaist Buddhist Monastery of America (now the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center) in New Jersey, and received a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin in 1973. From 1979 to 1989 he served as His Holiness the Dalai Lama's chief interpreter into English on lecture tours in the U.S., Canada, Southeast Asia, Great Britain, and Switzerland. He has published seventeen articles and more than twenty-five books, including Meditation on Emptiness. At the University of Virginia he founded programs in Buddhist Studies and Tibetan Studies and served as Director of the Center for South Asian Studies for twelve years.
List of Illustrations 7 (2)
Introduction 9 (10)
Technical Note 19 (4)
List of Abbreviations 23 (2)
Acknowledgements 25 (2)
PART ONE: MEDITATION 27 (98)
Purpose and Motivation 29 (6)
Self: The Opposite of Selflessness 35 (8)
Meditation: Identifying Self 43 (4)
Meditative Investigation 47 (6)
Dependent-Arising 53 (4)
Diamond Slivers 57 (4)
Realization 61 (6)
Calm Abiding 67 (24)
Special Insight 91 (20)
Tantra 111(6)
Buddhahood 117(8)
PART TWO: REASONING INTO REALITY 125(72)
Introduction 127(4)
The Diamond Slivers 131(20)
The Four Extremes 151(4)
The Four Alternatives 155(6)
Dependent-Arising 161(14)
Refuting a Self of Persons 175(22)
PART THREE: THE BUDDHIST WORLD 197(108)
Introduction 199(14)
The Selfless 213(62)
Dependent-Arising of Cyclic Existence 275(10)
The Four Noble Truths 285(20)
PART FOUR: SYSTEMS 305(124)
Self 307(10)
Non-Buddhist Systems 317(18)
Hinyana 335(18)
History of the Mahayana 353(12)
Chittamatra 365(34)
Madhyamika 399(30)
PART FIVE: PRASANGIKA-MADHYAMIKA 429(132)
The Prasangika School 431(10)
Debate 441(14)
Bhavaviveka's Criticism of Buddhapalita 455(14)
Chandrakirti's Defense of Buddhapalita 469(30)
Chandrakirti's Refutation of Bhavaviveka 499(32)
Prasangika in Tibet 531(8)
Validation of Phenomena 539(10)
Meditative Reasoning 549(12)
PART SIX: TRANSLATION: EMPTINESS IN THE 561(138)
PRASANGIKA SYSTEM
Introduction 563(18)
Contents 581(2)
Background 583(12)
Interpretation of Scripture 595(30)
The Object of Negation 625(14)
Refuting Inherently Existent Production 639(12)
Other Types of Production 651(8)
Dependent-Arising 659(18)
Refuting a Self of Persons 677(22)
APPENDICES 699(36)
1 Types of Awareness 701(6)
2 Other Interpretations of Dependent-Arising 707(6)
3 Modes of Division of the Vaibhashika 713(8)
Schools
4 Negatives 721(8)
5 Proof Statements 729(6)
Glossary 735(20)
Bibliography 755(38)
Notes 793(114)
Tibetan Text 907(60)
Emendations to the Tibetan Text 967(12)
List of Charts 979(2)
Index 981
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